The Question

Why is this Dennis O'Neil run so fricking hyped up? The prose on this first page are fricking dreadful, I bust out laughing at every text bubble it just reads like a parody. Apparently the art goes to shit halfway through as well. Frick you Cinemaphile

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Hot take: the only good Question is the JLU/Rorschach-lite one and DC needs to boost the living frick out of that guy instead of trying to make Rorshaq a thing. The Denny one is an OK 80s comic but it's so divorced from Ditko it's really not the Question.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >instead of trying to make Rorshaq a thing
      They aren't anymore than he already was. Nobody liked or had faith in King's shitty series.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I don't like it either. The writing is your average, overwritten narration, so I don't know what you could find funny about that.
      However, Cowan sucks. Some of the covers trick you too with the nice Sienkiewicz inks.
      The only O'Neil comic I like is his Bronze Age Batman.

      Ditko Question was barely a character, but his adventures were kinda fun. There's one cool moment where he's in a warehouse full of henchmen, and he keeps switching between Vic Sage and The Question.

      This is why fanfics and oc's are better

      This is a fanfic.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >However, Cowan sucks
        You suck.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Not liking Cowan soulful sketchy cartoonish style
          frickin' get some taste, bet you like jobber art homosexual.
          >Fan fic
          It's officially published comics, it's not a fan fic cry about it.

          Nah, he sucks. Cowan's work on The Question is a prime example of soulless, jobber art.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            What other artists have this soulless jobber art?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Neal Adams, Frank Quitely, Darwyn Cooke, and Frank Miller

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You just baiting.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              The ones I don't remember.

              Neal Adams, Frank Quitely, Darwyn Cooke, and Frank Miller

              These were all great at some point.

              You just baiting.

              That's not me.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Cartoonist Kayfabe is cringe.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Not liking Cowan soulful sketchy cartoonish style
        frickin' get some taste, bet you like jobber art homosexual.
        >Fan fic
        It's officially published comics, it's not a fan fic cry about it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >The Denny one is an OK 80s comic but it's so divorced from Ditko it's really not the Question.

      It would’ve been cool if O’Neal had like metaphorically killed off Ditko character in order to have him reborn as a new imagining

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That's what Gaiman did with Sandman

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        He did do that though in the first issue.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah but what I liked was that Vic still struggled to follow his new zen lessons and falls back on his old habits, he felt conflicted at times.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >The prose on this first page are fricking dreadful, I bust out laughing at every text bubble it just reads like a parody.

    Keep reading. The first issue is basically setting up a character that gets his world view shattered. The writing is still of the era, and O'Neil was already an older writer in the 80's, so I'm not familiar with what your tolerance to older writing might be.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This is why fanfics and oc's are better

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What's so bad about the prose?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      OP is on so many levels of self-awareness and post-cringe culture he can't appreciate flowery prose.

      Hot take: the only good Question is the JLU/Rorschach-lite one and DC needs to boost the living frick out of that guy instead of trying to make Rorshaq a thing. The Denny one is an OK 80s comic but it's so divorced from Ditko it's really not the Question.

      >I am too lazy to actually read comics but I sure like watching the shows!
      JLU Question is even more far divorced from Ditko than O'Neil. Ditko's Question was a sqaurejawed, confident hero, JLU's is a self-loathing self-styled creep. O'Neil's question organically evolves from the Ditko one, JLU Question is him crammed into a rorschach mold.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Vic losing his mind trying to make sense of how Hub City got so damn bad could be an organic development from the end of the O'Neil Run, especially since the cause turned out to be the CIA selling drugs in low rent parts of cities all over the country to pay for guns to sell to the Iranians. Or buy from the Iranians? I can never remember it right.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >OP is on so many levels of self-awareness and post-cringe culture he can't appreciate flowery prose.

        This is why I laugh so hard at people asking for a return to "traditional storytelling" and hating ironic humor (Like that one autist who keeps b***hing about that Whedon quote); whenever presented with actual sincerity, those same people hate it.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Okay, hon.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >The prose on this first page are fricking dreadful, I bust out laughing at every text bubble it just reads like a parody.
    Why the frick are zoomers so allergic to anything made before their time?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I really can't imagine anyone busting out laughing after any of those text excerpts. They'd have to be the most obnoxious person or intentionally reading it to themselves in a corny voice.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Laugh out loud almost like a parody
        >Just sounds like a guy telling you what about to go down and it pretty forward about it
        Are you mental?

        This.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >I really can't imagine anyone busting out laughing after any of those text excerpts.

        The kind of people who do are midwits who have Dunning-Kruger

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Filtered by the very first page
    At least you made it past the cover

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >The prose on this first page are fricking dreadful
    You like shit art? cuz he looks pretty damn cool imo and it's well drawn.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >it's well drawn
      not really

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah, it kind of sucks.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You've just never read a pulp detective novel before homosexual. Would you rather it was written like a Joss Wheadon comedy routine like everything is now?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >You've just never read a pulp detective novel before
        Wouldn't reading something good make this seem more shit?
        >Would you rather it was written like a Joss Wheadon comedy routine like everything is now?
        No, that's way worse. I want comics to be good.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >No, that's way worse. I want comics to be good.

          No you don't. You'll just whine about it.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I got the Mr. A collection and I got to say its very nice. Kinda what I would somewhat expect from a Question comic.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it was good by its decade standards

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